Tara Aghdashloo

As a journalist, director, producer, Tara has worked with Channel 4 News,[5] and BBC World.[6][7] She wrote, directed and produced Value of Contemporary Art,[8] Riksdag,[9] Ticket documentary-series,[10] and the seven-part docuseries City Map,[11] among others. She was a founding co-host and producer on the first Persian-speaking all-woman talk show, Samte No on Manoto TV channel.[12] Starting in 2017 she independently produced and directed on her debut feature documentary, Chiaroscuro: Capturing my Father.[13][14] In 2019, she directed the music video 'Circles' for Choubi by Yasmine Hamdan [15] and commercials [16] as well.

Her poetry has appear in English language[17] and Persian[18] magazines, and her poetry collection, This is Not a Pomegranate, was published by Shahrvand Publications in 2011.[19] Her essays, articles and reviews have been published in The Guardian,[20] REALLIFE Magazine,[21] The New Inquiry,[22] Tank Magazine,[23] Autodidact Magazine,[24] Ibraaz,[25] Fashion Magazine,[26] ArtRabbit,[27] Ottawa Citizen, Future Fossil Flora Magazine,[28] Reorient Magazine,[29]BULLETT[30] and Capsule 98 [31] among others. Tara wrote the lyrics for King Raam's debut solo album, Songs of The Wolves.[32]

Tara co-directed and curated The Invisible Line (TIL) Gallery in East London for two years and exhibited around 25 shows during that time.[33][34] In 2017 she curated a retrospective of Portuguese artist Cristina Rodrigues in Castelo Branco Museum.[35] She frequently reviews art especially by Iranian and Middle Eastern artists.[36]